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This week's PBS Feature Album is Anglayang , the new album from acclaimed Balinese gamelan orchestra Gamelan DanAnda, in collaboration with electro-jazz-fusion group Firetail. Highlighting the beauty of cultural exchange, Anglayang explores the blending of...

Congratulations to Ian Stanistreet OAM, former PBS station manager (1982-1988) and CEO of the Community Broadcasting Foundation, who was awarded the Medal of Order of Australia (OAM) for his services to broadcast media on January...

Dandelion Wine are an ethereal electro-folk band from Naarm/Melbourne, who combine medieval and folk instruments with electronic beats and waves of textured guitars, mixed with celestial vocals. Equally at home lulling audiences in a theatre...

Every Tuesday evening between 7pm and 8pm, listeners will get to hear our new multi-faceted program Rotations . The show will see PBS volunteer broadcasters program and present a month of one-hour specialist shows over...

This week's PBS Feature Album is Cosmic Seeds, the latest album from psychedelic Naarm/Melbourne locals Brown Spirits. Following on from their 2023 album Solitary Transmissions, plus a string of sold out 45s on Soul Jazz...

Malt Shop Hop - The Last Broadcast, Mr Doo Wop is surrounded by 16 folks in the studio consisting of friends, family and fans, March 5, 2025. Photo Greg Barnes. Recently, we farewelled Mr. Doo...

In August 2022, Shannon Shaw’s world was turned inside out. With mere weeks to go until their wedding, the singer’s fiancé, Joe Haener, died in a horrific car accident in front of his family’s vegetable...

This week's PBS Feature Album is The Bad Fire , the eleventh album by Scottish rock band Mogwai. Named after a working-class Glaswegian term for Hell, The Bad Fire reflects the difficult time that members...

The PBS Feature Sounds and Feature Album of the week will return soon, but in the meantime, check out the list of the top tracks the PBS team are loving this week. We hope you...

Stonnington’s Sunset Sounds: Unmissable Soul, Funk, and Ska vibes under the twilight skies! Get ready to groove! The much-anticipated Sunset Sounds returns to Malvern Public Gardens for an unforgettable evening of FREE live music! Get...

Star Cinema is proud to unveil the programme for the 4th Annual Eaglehawk Film Festival, taking place from Friday, January 17 to Sunday, January 19, 2025. Since its inception in 2022, the Eaglehawk Film Festival...

Thanks, Congratulations and Farewell Susi Lanagan ( What The Folk! ) Photo credit: Isobel Buckley PBS listeners would have heard that February 6 will be a very special day for Susi Lanagan and What the...

The pigs that go weeeeeeee are here for round threeeeee – this New Year's Eve, When Pigs Fly returns to Melbourne’s plushest paddock! Shake off the last bits of winter and step into the warmth...

Get ready to experience a festive day like no other at PBS' Country Christmas on Sunday December 22 at the Lulie Tavern in Abbotsford from 3pm, entry is free. Hosted by PBS presenters, Ernie (...

Celebrate 45 years of PBS radio on the station's actual 45th anniversary!

It’s not unreasonable to argue, as a great philosopher once has, that we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. We take this adage fairly seriously here at...

A Mutual Aid Market is taking place on December 14 at Kines , Brunswick to fundraise for Palestinian and First Nations mutual aid funds. Get along for: Pre-loved clothing market Silent auction Raffle Gifts &...

The Rankoutsiders are the ideal vehicle for Pat Todd's fantastic songs. A prolific writer with an eye on life in the margins - whether they be in small towns or the big sprawling city he...